Governments Are Using Covid-19 as an Excuse to Crush Freedom of Speech

Governments Are Using Covid-19 as an Excuse to Crush Freedom of Speech

Stop those non-humans who are writing and provoking our people,” says Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in an Instagram video. The non-humans he objects to are journalists who criticise the Chechen authorities for mishandling their response to the Covid-19 epidemic. Given Kadyrov has faced allegations of torturing and disappearing critics (which the leader denies), he leaves…